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Updated the documentation for developer tools to have JavaScript instead of Javascript, as JavaScript is the more correct way to write it

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@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ Caveats with inspecting the live browser DOM
Since Developer Tools operate on a live browser DOM, what you'll actually see
when inspecting the page source is not the original HTML, but a modified one
after applying some browser clean up and executing Javascript code. Firefox,
after applying some browser clean up and executing JavaScript code. Firefox,
in particular, is known for adding ``<tbody>`` elements to tables. Scrapy, on
the other hand, does not modify the original page HTML, so you won't be able to
extract any data if you use ``<tbody>`` in your XPath expressions.
Therefore, you should keep in mind the following things:
* Disable Javascript while inspecting the DOM looking for XPaths to be
* Disable JavaScript while inspecting the DOM looking for XPaths to be
used in Scrapy (in the Developer Tools settings click `Disable JavaScript`)
* Never use full XPath paths, use relative and clever ones based on attributes